Luke Thompson

I am perhaps unwisely going to try to do that for you right now.

The four accents again then.

So we have received pronunciation, then there's Cockney, okay, and then we have Estuary English, and then MLE, Multicultural London English, right?

That fourth one is probably the one that I am less...

familiar with and less able to copy and so that's the probably the one i won't copy very much but i will highlight some specific details and again you can listen to you can watch patricio's videos about that specific accent to get loads of actual samples of people speaking that way

So Cockney, Received Pronunciation and Cockney.

Now, I have talked a lot about Received Pronunciation on this podcast in the past.

Let me just go through some of those details again.

So, you know, there's one of the points that Patricio made here, which I think is a very good point, is that it's not cut and dry.

You know, it's not a clear distinction between this is received pronunciation, then there's a very clear line, and this is Cockney, and then there's a very clear line, this is Estuary English, and a very clear line, and then this is MLE.

Instead, they all blend and blur together to an extent, and you'll find some people, you know, are a hybrid.

In fact, several of those accents are kind of hybrid accents anyway.

Some people will speak...

RP in a more posh way.

Other people will speak RP with a bit more influence from Cockney, which makes it more like estuary English.

Other people speak RP with other slight differences.

There's heightened or posh RP.

There's standard southern British English or sort of standard modern RP.

But basically, this is the version of English that you get in the pronunciation guides.

When you look at it in a dictionary and you see the phonemic script...